October 10, 2008

Obituaries

Please submit in writing to our office by 10 a.m. Thursday before the week of publication; be sure to state date of death. Obituaries of archdiocesan priests serving our archdiocese are listed elsewhere in The Criterion. Order priests and religious sisters and brothers are included here, unless they are natives of the archdiocese or have other connections to it; those are separate obituaries on this page.

Father James Brune of Evansville
was ordained in archdiocese

Father James Brune, who was ordained in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis then served in the Diocese of Evansville when it was established later, died in his sleep on Sept. 15 at the Villa Maria, the diocesan home for priests in Evansville, Ind. He was 85.

The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated by Evansville Bishop Gerald A. Gettelfinger on Sept. 18 at St. Benedict Cathedral in Evansville. Burial followed at St. Joseph Cemetery in Evansville.

James Anthony Brune was born on May 22, 1923, in Evansville.

He studied for the priesthood at the former Saint Meinrad High School, the former Saint Meinrad College and the Saint Meinrad School of Theology in St. Meinrad.

He was ordained to the priesthood by Evansville Bishop Henry J. Grimmelsman on May 22, 1948, at Assumption Cathedral in Evansville.

His ministry assignments were at parishes in the Evansville Diocese.

He retired in 1995 and celebrated the golden anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood in 1998.

Surviving are three sisters, Elizabeth O’Daniel of Omaha, Neb., and Isabelle Preske and Jeanette Knapp, both of Evansville; and two brothers, Judge William Brune of Evansville and Thomas Brune of Poseyville. †